Everybody is focused on looking smart to the outside observer, without actually being smart.

You think being smarter is about being faster on the outside.

It’s more about being faster on the inside.

I can feel you.

There’s nothing going on inside of you. Just a feeling. A reflection of the outside world. On the inside, it’s empty. Nothing is there for me to feel.

If you keep focusing on getting things done faster only, it will always feel like you’re dragging yourself behind and pushing yourself to achieve external results. While working on a lot of complex or difficult tasks might activate and stimulate you significantly, it will always feel like it’s something against your nature that you’re forcing yourself to do or reach all the time against your will or whether you feel like it or not, because the default or normal of your mind is inactive, idle, or not working at all.

This isn’t about worrying all the time or inducing a state of anxiety. This is about operating at full speed all the time, even if there’s nothing that necessitates or requires that to take place at the moment that you’re engaged in doing in the external world or outside your mind or body, unless you seriously need to rest and can’t keep being like that any longer. This is about being fast, with disregard to what you’re doing.

You try to look faster by making things happen quicker in the outside world. You don’t care about thinking or being faster on the inside, even when you’re doing nothing.

You keep focusing on getting things done, finishing more tasks, with the minimum amount of energy, in order to remain efficient.

Real speed and intelligence isn’t about operating quickly and doing things quickly or in lesser time. It’s about being faster in terms of what takes place inside your mind, even if the task at hand does not demand such speed.

You need to be faster, not just get things done quicker. This is the other side of intelligence that no one talks about. Everybody is focused on what you can do externally or in the outside world.

Remember when you say I’m having a slow day today? Try to reverse that and have a fast day today. Notice the difference. If it were about rushing things and being in a hurry, then it’s just external speed, which matters, but you cannot consider yourself fast in terms of intelligence, if the only things happening faster exist outside your mind or body. There should be a significant increase in how fast you process things and think for example, with disregard to what’s going on in the outside world.